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The curves of emitted radiation from blackbodies of different temperatures. The x-axis shows wavelength and the y-axis shows the amount of energy emitted every second by a square meter of the surface of that blackbody at each wavelength.
The hotter the body, the shorter the wavelength and the bluer the light it emits its maximum amount of energy at. Despite the coolest body in this plot peaking in red light, the other hotter bodies all emit more red light than the coolest body.
The dotted line shows the emitted radiation predicted by classical theory prior to modern quantum mechanics. This prediction tends to infinity at shorter wavelengths for any blackbody temperature above zero and was dubbed the ‘ultraviolet catastrophe’.
Diagram credit: IAU OAE/Niall Deacon.
Related glossary terms:
Blackbody Radiation
, Electromagnetic Radiation
, Wavelength
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Physics
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German: Schwarzkörperstrahlung - UV-KatastrophePortuguese BR: Radiação de corpo negro - Catástrofe do UV
Italian: Radiazione di corpo nero - Catastrofe UV
French: Rayonnement du corps noir - Catastrophe UV
Arabic: إشعاع الجسم الأسود - كارثة الأشعة فوق البنفسجية
Marathi: कृष्णिका प्रारण अतिनील आपत्ती
Traditional Chinese: 黑體輻射--紫外綫災難
Simplified Chinese: 黑体辐射--紫外线灾难
Spanish: Radiación de cuerpo negro - Catástrofe UV
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